Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Test Your Scientific Skepticism

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I once posted a series of articles on Roundup® (glyphosate) explaining how it works and how one makes Roundup®-Ready genetically modified pl...
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Stop Using the Term "Noncoding DNA:" It Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means

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Axel Visel is a member of the ENCODE Consortium. He is a Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Californ...
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Sunday, November 03, 2013

The Carnival of Evolution #65: Horror Host Edition

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The latest issue of Carnival of Evolution is hosted by PZ Myers, a developmental biologist with an interest in evolution (among other thing...
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How Many Different Cell Types in an Adult Human?

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We're having a little discussion about complexity in the comments from my post of last Friday [ Vertebrate Complexity Is Explained by th...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Vertebrate Complexity Is Explained by the Evolution of Long-Range Interactions that Regulate Transcription?

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The Deflated Ego Problem is a very serious problem in molecular biology. It refers to the fact that many molecular biologists were puzzled ...
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A "Perfect Painting" Proves that Beneficial Mutations Are Impossible and Neutral Mutations Are Impossible

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There are times when the stupidity of creationists just makes you gasp. This is one of those times. The creationist is Denyse O'Leary, w...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Time to Re-Write the Textbooks! Nature Publishes a New Version of the Citric Acid Cycle

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I was looking through my copy of Nature the other day trying to take seriously all the special reviews on "Transcription and Epigeneti...
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I Just Signed Up for an Evolution MOOC!

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I'm not a big fan of MOOCs but I just couldn't resist a course called "Evolution: A Course for Educators" . The instructor...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The Khan Academy and AAMC Teach Evolution in Preparation for the MCAT

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Ross Firestone is a 2nd year MD/PhD student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is one of the winners of the MCAT Video Competiti...
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The Khan Academy and AAMC Teach the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology in Preparation for the MCAT

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Here's a presentation by Tracy Kovach, a 3rd year medical student at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Sandwalk readers wi...
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The Khan Academy and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Team Up to Teach Evolution and Biochemistry for the New MCAT

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Theme Better Biochemistry Students have to write an exam called the MCAT in order to get into American Medical Schools (Canadians students...

Teachers Have to Know Their Subject

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I've said it before and I'll say it again. The top three criteria for good teaching are: (1) accuracy, (2) accuracy, and (3) accurac...
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Submitting to Carnival of Evolution

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PZ Myers is hosting the next Carnival of Evolution [ Guess who’s hosting the Carnival of Evolution? ]. I tried submitting an article but I w...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Michael Egnor Keeps Digging

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When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Will Rogers I favor teaching biochemistry from an evolutionary perspective and I was please...
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Monday's Molecule #221

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Last week's molecule was 2-oxo-4-hydroxy-4-carboxy-5-ureidoimidazoline (OHCU). It is an intermediate in the degradation pathway from uri...